S.Africa's Ruling Party Power struggle triggered by CIA worsens by Jan Lamprecht
This week, former Vice President Jacob Zuma went back to court as his rape trial continued.
The troubles between President Mbeki faction and Zuma's faction are on the increase.
I explained in previous news releases as well as in the Straight Talk newsletter (see www.StraightTalk.co.za) that the CIA is most probably behind this schism because of ideological reasons.
I was chatting to a good friend of mine who spent much of his life in Military Intelligence here in S.Africa, and he said to me that there are analysts who now think that the troubles in the ANC/S.African Communist Party/COSATU alliance could eventually escalate into black on black violence.
It is becoming ever clearer that indeed, Jacob Zuma had many supporters and secretly, they tried to help him.
But the strangest incident of all was the firing of the head of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) this week.
Officially, he is being fired due to a "breakdown in trust" between himself and President Mbeki. Also, officially, the head of NIA is being blamed for "faking emails" which were designed to "create dissension" within the ruling African National Congress (ANC).
But other aspects of the news reports point to another much more interesting possibility.
The NIA was going about its routine businesses monitoring political loyalty in the ruling party when it became aware of a possible conspiracy against Vice President Jacob Zuma. The head of the NIA then began to order the agency to spy on 13 other people either in, or linked to the ANC who might know of the conspiracy. It appears he was making quite a lot of headway gathering concrete information about a conspiracy inside the ANC aimed at destroying Vice President Zuma's career.
Then President Mbeki fired him.
It is important to understand that Mbeki and everyone else deny that there was any kind of conspiracy against Zuma. And that is probably why Mbeki had to fire the head of the NIA.
So now they seem to be in cover-up and damage-control mode, hence the latest "news" claiming that the emails were faked.
The head of the NIA is now thought to have had pro-Zuma sympathies.
During Jacob Zuma's rape trial, it was also shown that the investigating Police had pro-Zuma sympathies.
One of the unknown people in all this, is a white man, Ronnie Kasrils, who is the Minister of Intelligence and is a hard-core communist. Kasrils, in theory, should be on Jacob Zuma's side, because Zuma is idolised by the Communists and the Far Left. But Kasrils seems to be trusted by Mbeki. My personal suspicion is that Kasrils is playing a very subtle double-game. I think he may secretly be in the Zuma camp.
What remains to be seen is how the Zuma rape trial pans out, especially to Zuma's supporters. In the trial, the defence have raised questions about the rape charges themselves being the result of a political conspiracy. I think this is highly probable.
The weeks and months that lie ahead could be extremely interesting because the firing of Jacob Zuma seems to be creating an ever wider series of problems within the ANC and the Political Left.
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Original Investigative Journalism from the
Columnist Guild News Bureau
The troubles between President Mbeki faction and Zuma's faction are on the increase.
I explained in previous news releases as well as in the Straight Talk newsletter (see www.StraightTalk.co.za) that the CIA is most probably behind this schism because of ideological reasons.
I was chatting to a good friend of mine who spent much of his life in Military Intelligence here in S.Africa, and he said to me that there are analysts who now think that the troubles in the ANC/S.African Communist Party/COSATU alliance could eventually escalate into black on black violence.
It is becoming ever clearer that indeed, Jacob Zuma had many supporters and secretly, they tried to help him.
But the strangest incident of all was the firing of the head of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) this week.
Officially, he is being fired due to a "breakdown in trust" between himself and President Mbeki. Also, officially, the head of NIA is being blamed for "faking emails" which were designed to "create dissension" within the ruling African National Congress (ANC).
But other aspects of the news reports point to another much more interesting possibility.
The NIA was going about its routine businesses monitoring political loyalty in the ruling party when it became aware of a possible conspiracy against Vice President Jacob Zuma. The head of the NIA then began to order the agency to spy on 13 other people either in, or linked to the ANC who might know of the conspiracy. It appears he was making quite a lot of headway gathering concrete information about a conspiracy inside the ANC aimed at destroying Vice President Zuma's career.
Then President Mbeki fired him.
It is important to understand that Mbeki and everyone else deny that there was any kind of conspiracy against Zuma. And that is probably why Mbeki had to fire the head of the NIA.
So now they seem to be in cover-up and damage-control mode, hence the latest "news" claiming that the emails were faked.
The head of the NIA is now thought to have had pro-Zuma sympathies.
During Jacob Zuma's rape trial, it was also shown that the investigating Police had pro-Zuma sympathies.
One of the unknown people in all this, is a white man, Ronnie Kasrils, who is the Minister of Intelligence and is a hard-core communist. Kasrils, in theory, should be on Jacob Zuma's side, because Zuma is idolised by the Communists and the Far Left. But Kasrils seems to be trusted by Mbeki. My personal suspicion is that Kasrils is playing a very subtle double-game. I think he may secretly be in the Zuma camp.
What remains to be seen is how the Zuma rape trial pans out, especially to Zuma's supporters. In the trial, the defence have raised questions about the rape charges themselves being the result of a political conspiracy. I think this is highly probable.
The weeks and months that lie ahead could be extremely interesting because the firing of Jacob Zuma seems to be creating an ever wider series of problems within the ANC and the Political Left.
Original Investigative Journalism from the
Columnist Guild News Bureau
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